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Orender Sees Brighter WNBA Future

SEATTLE -- WNBA President Donna Orender is the eternal optimist about her league, which is clearly preferable to having Chicken Little running the show. So it can't be much of a surprise that on Sunday, in her annual state-of-the-league speech one hour before Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, Orender was all about the good...

WNBA President Says Time Simply Ran Out on the Monarchs

WNBA president Donna Orender said dispersing the Sacramento Monarchs and aiming for a 2011 debut for a Bay Area team was a function of time. "We had to get our schedule together, our teams need to sell tickets," Orender said Wednesday, a day after it was announced that the Monarchs players will be dispersed via draft on...

Background on Sacramento Monarchs

The Sacramento Monarchs were a basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 until folding on November 20, 2009. They played their home games at ARCO Arena.

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